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      3.5

      60% would recommend to a friend

      (210,064 total reviews)
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      Andrew Jassy

      50% approve of CEO

      57% positive business outlook

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      Amazon has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 210,064 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amazon employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      210K reviews
      1.0
      Mar 11, 2013

      Not a great place to work as Full-time perm

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      lots of money and good benefits

      Cons

      no time to live your life. The hours will kill any family life you want. They hire you and you have a brief honeymoon period of about 1 month but after 2 months the honeymoon is over. Be prepared to work your butt off and if you can't then be ready to work somewhere else. Oh and the signing bonus they will want that back if you didn't last a year at amazon. I feel sorry for all the college students getting out of college and working for amazon. Amazon is using and abusing you. Believe it.

      1.0
      Dec 16, 2012

      Product Manager

      Product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Steep learning curve. You will get a chance to influence products that are being used by millions. Experience looks good on your resume.

      Cons

      I would not recommend MBA's to join Amazon. There are a few roles out there which offer good experience but overall I would say 75% chances are that you will get disappointed with your experience. Talk to your colleagues (software and product) before taking up an offer. The company is very political in director level and up. Contrary to what some say, I have experience it first hand. Smart people in the company are typically not good manager and still get promoted.

      3.0
      Nov 3, 2012

      Two years is enough

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Amazon "hordes" smart people and you work with a lot of smart people. The business is ever changing, even expanding so you get lots of opportunities and challenges.

      Cons

      Amazon likes to hire smart people but once they are in, the senior leadership does not spend time developing the people and does not "care" about them. Sometimes they hire people who are really over-qualified for the tasks, thus demoralizing people. Working people hard is ok, but leaders also must show that they appreciate and care.

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